Lead Software Engineer

Egreenservices; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Dollar Tree in Warren, MI is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead end-to-end software delivery, guide architectural decisions, and own critical cloud-native migrations. You will build internal tooling and maintain RESTful APIs powering core products, with a focus on Networking craftsmanship and scalable software foundations.

The role offers a hands-on leadership position, opportunity to mentor, and capacity to drive long-term technical strategy within a fast-paced retail tech environment.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience leading architectural reviews and driving technical decisions.
• Proven ability to ship features end to end and own outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end.
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.
• Build internal tooling to improve developer productivity and velocity.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively.
• Lead technical design reviews for lead technology initiatives.
• Deliver the Networking rewrite to pay down technical debt.

Skills

Facilitation

Leadership

Tools

PHP

Job description

If clean APIs give you a small private thrill, the Lead Software Engineer role at Dollar Tree in Warren, MI was practically written for you. Pair quietly-relentless drive with 9 years and Dollar Tree returns $100,000 - $158,000, a Warren base, and growth that outpaces the title.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
• Lead technical design reviews for lead technology initiatives
• Ship the Networking gloriously-unglamorous rewrite that pays down years of Dollar Tree technical debt
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with PHP
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core Dollar Tree products

What You'll Bring

• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Strong working knowledge of Facilitation and PHP
• Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking

With roots in Warren, MI and a hands-dirty outlook, Dollar Tree delivers software that scales with our customers. We celebrate Networking craftsmanship and hold ourselves to a high bar on the details that matter.

Our offer to you: $100,000 - $158,000, a mentor, a benefits suite, and the latitude to grow your Facilitation into something senior.

Nothing stale here: the Lead Software Engineer slot was re-confirmed open earlier today.

Your Networking story isn't finished, and the next chapter might be a Lead Software Engineer role here.